The $300 Kay gives Mike for taking the case is over $4,700 in 2019.
Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) drives a 1939 Mercury coupe; Dudley Wolff (Paul Harvey) drives a 1941 Ford station wagon;
This film is based on Clayton Rawson's novel No coffin for the corpse, where The great Merlini is the problem solver. Here The great Merlini is reduced to a single scene.